Cristiano Ronaldo was considered by FIFA the best player of the world in 2008 and in 2013, was second best in 2009, 2011 and 2012, and 3rd best in 2007. He is the only player in the world to have won both the Golden Boot and the Ballon d’Or with 2 different teams (Manchester United and Real…

With his yesterday’s hat trick against Galatasaray, Cristiano Ronaldo reached an amazing mark of 206 goals in 204 official matches played wearing Real Madrid’s Jersey. He is now just 2 goals behind the 5th ever Real Madrid’s goal scorer, striker Hugo Sánchez. Just wait 2 or 3 games and he surely pass him. Back in almost…

There is little to say about Cristiano Ronaldo that Football Fans already don’t know. He was considered by FIFA the best player of the world in 2008, was second best in 2009, 2011 and 2012, and 3rd best in 2007. But maybe you don’t know that last Wednesday (Champions League Match against Galatasaray) he reached the amazing…

The winner of the last 3 Ballon d’Or Awards – Lionel Messi – reached an amazing record of 91 goals in 2012 (only official matches) beating German Gerd Muller that scored 85 in 1972. Twelve of Messi’s goals were scored in 9 appearances with his National Team Argentina. The other 79 were scored wearing Barcelona’s Jersey. From the 2008-2009 season till…

It is not so uncommon to watch a goalkeeper taking a penalty shot as if he was a field player. That happens more often in penalty shootouts where there this no risk that a failed conversion endangers the goalkeeper’s own nets. Nonetheless, through football history some goalkeepers have taken the risk of trying to score…

British professional road and track racing cyclist – Bradley Wiggins (UCI ProTeam Team Sky) – took the award for 2012 UK’s Sports Personality an event organized by BBC. Curiously, Wiggins was born in Belgium (Ghent) and his father is Australian. Wiggins was the winner of this year’s Tour de France (the 1st British cyclist to do so) and also took…

Contrary to our predictions Vettel did no manage to reach the title in Austin, Texas, last weekend. We therefore, update our earlier post accordingly to his 2nd place. Vettel made is F1 debut in 2007 racing for Sauber as a substitute driver of the team regular pilot Robert Kubica and ended the race inside points (8th). It only took…

Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored yesterday, against England, what is probably the best and long bicycle goal ever. The kick was taken at almost 30 metres from the goal and in a very difficult angle, but all made in an intentional way as you may see it. Sweden won the game 4-2 and Ibrahimovic scored all the…

Super-G stands for super giant slalom, an event that combines the speed of downhill with the more precise turns of giant slalom. The course is shorter than downhill but longer than a giant slalom course, and includes high-speed turns, jumps and gliding phases. Each skier makes one run down a single course and the fastest time…

Valentino Rossi is one of the most skilled Motorbike drivers ever. He has collected 9 World Titles in prime Motorbike championships, 7 of them in the King Category (currently known as MotoGP, and previously 500 cc class), five of them in a row between 2001 and 2005. He won 4 times riding a Yamaha Bike and 3…